Highest ever

Alora

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#195
1,614 girls
2015
#1,204
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Alora: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,614 in 2025. Its best rank was #195 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Alora in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#195 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,614
Since 1880
11,893
Years on record
63

Babies named Alora, every year since 1880

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Girls

Alora: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,614 girls in 2025. Peak: #195 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,614 (2025).

About the name Alora

In 2025, 1,614 US girls were named Alora, making it the 195th most common girls’ name of the year, up 29 places from #224 in 2024. That is 234 more than the 1,380 girls named Alora in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #195, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,614. For comparison, it was #1,204 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Alora in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 11,893 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,830 babies named Alora.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,007 US girls were named Alora; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,614. In 2025 that was about 1 in 996 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Alora ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #52 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Alara (2,183 babies since 1880) and Alaura (1,826 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Allura, Alorah and Alura are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Allura (923), Alorah (686), Alura (682), Allora (521), Aloura (397), Alyra (347), Alera (298), Alira (258), Alaira (213), Aulora (200), Aleera (186), Allorah (85), and more.

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Alora in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Alora by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 6 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
New Mexico20#52—
Hawaii11#56—
Alaska7#90—
Delaware8#100—
Arkansas24#120—
Georgia79#121#1,059
Louisiana32#127—
Oklahoma28#128—
Kentucky34#129#636
Florida139#130#942
Nebraska16#138—
North Dakota7#141—
Alabama28#152—
Wisconsin34#154—
Maryland31#158—
Tennessee48#160—
South Dakota7#163—
Texas197#164#1,624
Nevada15#167—
Pennsylvania65#172#789
Minnesota31#173#876
Virginia45#182#853
Kansas17#195—
Mississippi13#197—
Arizona33#205#966
West Virginia8#206—
Connecticut16#206—
Maine5#214—
North Carolina50#216#821
Washington33#220#594
Iowa15#226—
New York75#229#1,777
Ohio49#232—
California137#241#1,486
Michigan37#244#552
South Carolina20#245—
Idaho9#249—
Massachusetts22#263—
Indiana26#269#1,080
Utah15#289—
Illinois37#290—
New Jersey27#301—
Oregon11#323#522
Missouri18#329—
Colorado17#354—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,614#195——
20241,380#224——
20231,492#200——
20221,183#267——
2021676#463——
2020485#599——
2019400#714——
2018291#920——
2017258#1,006——
2016228#1,113——
2015207#1,204——
2014192#1,258——
2013184#1,281——
2012173#1,351——
2011182#1,293——
2010165#1,392——
2009157#1,478——
2008162#1,454——
2007161#1,453——
2006189#1,268——
2005161#1,351——
2004172#1,258——
2003172#1,227——
2002146#1,329——
2001114#1,612——
2000127#1,447——
1999123#1,422——
1998110#1,526——
1997101#1,586——
199690#1,685——
199585#1,718——
199492#1,634——
199381#1,801——
199272#1,930——
199184#1,727——
1990108#1,445——
1989103#1,435——
198811#6,684——
19856#9,344——
19845#10,474——
19816#9,144——
19805#10,428——
19767#7,312——
19756#8,010——
19737#6,682——
19727#6,578——
19708#5,829——
19696#6,640——
19637#5,305——
19626#5,867——
19616#5,861——
196011#3,924——
19585#6,116——
19555#5,844——
19515#5,425——
19499#3,622——
19485#5,255——
19435#4,706——
19395#4,262——
19308#3,356——
19296#4,070——
19219#3,413——
19187#3,881——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).